Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 80 86
Rank change year-on-year -11 +6 -29
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 2,090 1,777 2,370
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.92% 3.56% 2.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.62% 4.00% 3.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,455 858 1,562
10th Percentile £45,182 £49,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £93,634 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,000 £113,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -1.52%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 79,759 44,399 67,357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.20% 88.84% 80.67%
Number of salaries quoted 55,200 25,247 42,330
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 26 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 26 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -18 1,815 £75,000 +3.45% 980
UK excluding London -22 1,152 £67,500 -3.57% 532
Work from Home -15 865 £67,500 -3.57% 476
London -18 794 £85,000 +6.25% 587
North of England -37 378 £70,932 +1.33% 165
South East +29 330 £65,000 -7.14% 85
North West -55 200 £75,000 +7.14% 89
South West -13 132 £60,000 - 92
Midlands -46 107 £67,500 -3.57% 66
North East +18 100 £65,000 +49.43% 34
Yorkshire 0 78 £69,310 -0.99% 43
West Midlands -34 77 £80,000 +10.34% 41
Northern Ireland -23 69 £60,000 +33.33% 28
Wales -15 63 £62,500 +20.19% 5
East of England -39 40 £60,100 -3.84% 31
Scotland -55 35 £60,000 -22.58% 64
East Midlands -48 30 £65,000 -3.70% 24
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 43 (2.06%) Confluence
2 30 (1.44%) Apache Spark
3 18 (0.86%) Apache
4 17 (0.81%) CMS
5 14 (0.67%) IIS
6 12 (0.57%) Camunda
7 9 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 9 (0.43%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.38%) JBoss
9 7 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
9 7 (0.33%) nginx
9 7 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.33%) WordPress
10 5 (0.24%) Drupal
11 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.19%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.14%) DNN
12 3 (0.14%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.14%) GeoServer
12 3 (0.14%) Immediacy CMS
Applications
1 11 (0.53%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.48%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.14%) PlantUML
4 2 (0.096%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.048%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.29%) Oracle Retail
3 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.096%) Shopify
5 1 (0.048%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.048%) Eikon
5 1 (0.048%) RMDS
5 1 (0.048%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.048%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,049 (50.19%) AWS
2 879 (42.06%) Azure
3 323 (15.45%) GCP
4 261 (12.49%) Serverless
5 260 (12.44%) GitHub
6 200 (9.57%) SaaS
7 184 (8.80%) Azure DevOps
8 144 (6.89%) AWS Lambda
9 121 (5.79%) Amazon S3
10 115 (5.50%) AWS CloudFormation
11 114 (5.45%) Amazon EKS
12 106 (5.07%) GitHub Copilot
13 96 (4.59%) Azure Service Bus
14 86 (4.11%) Amazon ECS
15 74 (3.54%) GitHub Actions
16 67 (3.21%) Amazon SQS
17 66 (3.16%) Amazon EC2
18 64 (3.06%) Azure AKS
19 50 (2.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 50 (2.39%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.72%) Broadband
2 22 (1.05%) Network Security
3 13 (0.62%) DMARC
3 13 (0.62%) MQTT
4 12 (0.57%) DNS
5 9 (0.43%) HTTP
6 8 (0.38%) AMQP
6 8 (0.38%) Internet
6 8 (0.38%) TCP/IP
6 8 (0.38%) VPN
7 7 (0.33%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.29%) Firewall
8 6 (0.29%) RFID
9 3 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (0.14%) DHCP
9 3 (0.14%) LTE
9 3 (0.14%) Modbus
9 3 (0.14%) NAS
9 3 (0.14%) SAN
10 2 (0.096%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 310 (14.83%) MongoDB
2 229 (10.96%) PostgreSQL
3 202 (9.67%) NoSQL
4 168 (8.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 158 (7.56%) Elasticsearch
6 123 (5.89%) SQL Server
7 120 (5.74%) MySQL
8 97 (4.64%) Relational Database
9 69 (3.30%) Redis
10 57 (2.73%) DynamoDB
11 48 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
12 30 (1.44%) Big Data
13 17 (0.81%) Data Lake
14 16 (0.77%) RDBMS
15 14 (0.67%) Pinecone
16 12 (0.57%) Db2
16 12 (0.57%) DTS
17 11 (0.53%) BigQuery
18 10 (0.48%) Geospatial Data
19 8 (0.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 280 (13.40%) Git
2 187 (8.95%) GitLab
3 165 (7.89%) Jenkins
4 65 (3.11%) JUnit
5 64 (3.06%) JIRA
6 57 (2.73%) TeamCity
7 51 (2.44%) Cucumber
8 41 (1.96%) Cypress.io
9 39 (1.87%) Mockito
10 34 (1.63%) Claude Code
11 32 (1.53%) Maven
12 26 (1.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 26 (1.24%) Selenium
13 18 (0.86%) SonarQube
14 16 (0.77%) Spock
15 15 (0.72%) Postman
16 14 (0.67%) JMeter
16 14 (0.67%) REST Assured
17 13 (0.62%) CircleCI
18 11 (0.53%) Vite
General
1 529 (25.31%) Finance
2 413 (19.76%) Social Skills
3 221 (10.57%) Public Sector
4 187 (8.95%) Banking
5 158 (7.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 152 (7.27%) Law
7 139 (6.65%) Analytical Skills
8 116 (5.55%) Retail
9 84 (4.02%) Legal
10 70 (3.35%) Financial Institution
11 63 (3.01%) Marketing
12 51 (2.44%) Back Office
13 37 (1.77%) Aerospace
14 30 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
15 29 (1.39%) Games
16 28 (1.34%) Legal Technology
17 19 (0.91%) Advertising
17 19 (0.91%) Front Office
18 13 (0.62%) Manufacturing
19 12 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 779 (37.27%) Developer
2 498 (23.83%) Senior
3 377 (18.04%) Software Engineer
4 355 (16.99%) Lead
5 306 (14.64%) Architect
6 204 (9.76%) .NET Developer
7 188 (9.00%) Senior Developer
8 168 (8.04%) Full-Stack Developer
9 163 (7.80%) Java Developer
10 131 (6.27%) Java Engineer
11 124 (5.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 122 (5.84%) Senior Software Engineer
13 110 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
14 103 (4.93%) Principal Engineer
15 83 (3.97%) Software Developer
16 79 (3.78%) Lead Software Engineer
17 75 (3.59%) DevOps Engineer
18 72 (3.44%) Lead Developer
19 62 (2.97%) Technical Leader
20 57 (2.73%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 562 (26.89%) .NET
2 444 (21.24%) React
3 431 (20.62%) Node.js
4 377 (18.04%) Terraform
5 364 (17.42%) Spring
6 330 (15.79%) Spring Boot
7 314 (15.02%) RESTful
8 292 (13.97%) REST
9 276 (13.21%) Kafka
10 248 (11.87%) ASP.NET
11 229 (10.96%) .NET Core
12 223 (10.67%) AngularJS
13 217 (10.38%) Vue
14 199 (9.52%) ASP.NET Core
15 122 (5.84%) Blazor
16 104 (4.98%) ASP.NET Web API
17 95 (4.55%) .NET Framework
17 95 (4.55%) HTML
18 93 (4.45%) CSS
19 86 (4.11%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 656 (31.39%) Cloud Native
2 371 (17.75%) Distributed Systems
3 154 (7.37%) Product Ownership
4 114 (5.45%) Enterprise Software
5 109 (5.22%) Legacy Systems
6 75 (3.59%) Onboarding
7 52 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
8 50 (2.39%) AI Agents
9 49 (2.34%) Public Cloud
10 45 (2.15%) Virtual Team
11 40 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
12 37 (1.77%) e-Learning
13 29 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
14 25 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
15 22 (1.05%) Mobile App
15 22 (1.05%) Video\Live Streaming
16 21 (1.00%) Management Information System
17 20 (0.96%) Mainframe
18 19 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 19 (0.91%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 140 (6.70%) Linux
2 49 (2.34%) Windows
3 26 (1.24%) CentOS
3 26 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (1.00%) Unix
5 10 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.38%) Android
6 8 (0.38%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.29%) AIX
8 5 (0.24%) Debian
8 5 (0.24%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.14%) VMS
10 1 (0.048%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,107 (52.97%) CI/CD
2 992 (47.46%) Agile
3 741 (35.45%) Software Engineering
4 735 (35.17%) DevOps
5 580 (27.75%) Full-Stack Development
6 522 (24.98%) Mentoring
7 471 (22.54%) Event-Driven
8 442 (21.15%) AI
9 426 (20.38%) Test Automation
10 416 (19.90%) Infrastructure as Code
11 415 (19.86%) Continuous Improvement
12 413 (19.76%) Containerisation
13 369 (17.66%) Problem-Solving
14 308 (14.74%) Technical Leadership
15 294 (14.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 293 (14.02%) Scrum
17 245 (11.72%) TDD
18 241 (11.53%) Architectural Patterns
19 231 (11.05%) Clean Code
19 231 (11.05%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 716 (34.26%) Java
2 588 (28.13%) C#
3 503 (24.07%) SQL
4 464 (22.20%) JavaScript
5 461 (22.06%) Python
6 391 (18.71%) TypeScript
7 99 (4.74%) Go
8 58 (2.78%) Ruby
9 45 (2.15%) C++
10 41 (1.96%) Bash
11 40 (1.91%) PHP
12 28 (1.34%) PowerShell
12 28 (1.34%) Scala
13 26 (1.24%) Bicep
14 25 (1.20%) Rust
15 23 (1.10%) Kotlin
16 20 (0.96%) PL/SQL
17 17 (0.81%) C
18 14 (0.67%) Groovy
19 12 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 301 (14.40%) Security Cleared
2 203 (9.71%) SC Cleared
3 177 (8.47%) Degree
4 91 (4.35%) DV Cleared
5 81 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 73 (3.49%) AWS Certification
7 49 (2.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (1.39%) CISSP
9 28 (1.34%) Azure Certification
10 18 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (0.86%) CISM
10 18 (0.86%) Master's Degree
11 14 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
12 10 (0.48%) MBA
12 10 (0.48%) PhD
13 7 (0.33%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 5 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 221 (10.57%) QA
2 91 (4.35%) Accessibility
3 37 (1.77%) WCAG
4 35 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (1.58%) GDPR
6 17 (0.81%) NCSC
7 16 (0.77%) NIST
8 14 (0.67%) SOC 2
9 13 (0.62%) Data Quality
10 12 (0.57%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
12 9 (0.43%) GRC
12 9 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 8 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
16 5 (0.24%) PSD2
17 4 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 4 (0.19%) ISO 20022
18 3 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 587 (28.09%) Docker
2 35 (1.67%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.24%) NDS
4 5 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.19%) Firmware
5 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.14%) KVM
7 1 (0.048%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 632 (30.24%) Kubernetes
2 109 (5.22%) Ansible
3 100 (4.78%) Grafana
4 53 (2.54%) Prometheus
5 28 (1.34%) Argo
6 26 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (0.91%) Puppet
8 15 (0.72%) Kibana
9 9 (0.43%) Cilium
10 6 (0.29%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.24%) Podman
12 4 (0.19%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.19%) Packer
13 3 (0.14%) Kubeflow
14 2 (0.096%) MIIS
14 2 (0.096%) Rancher
15 1 (0.048%) Consul
15 1 (0.048%) Fluentd
15 1 (0.048%) Istio
15 1 (0.048%) logstash
Vendors
1 334 (15.98%) Microsoft
2 97 (4.64%) Google
3 72 (3.44%) Oracle
4 42 (2.01%) Splunk
5 40 (1.91%) OpenAI
6 28 (1.34%) Dynatrace
7 26 (1.24%) IBM
8 24 (1.15%) AppDynamics
9 23 (1.10%) Databricks
9 23 (1.10%) Okta
10 20 (0.96%) ForgeRock
11 18 (0.86%) Typelevel
12 17 (0.81%) OneLogin
13 14 (0.67%) SAP
14 13 (0.62%) Adobe
14 13 (0.62%) Salesforce
14 13 (0.62%) SendGrid
15 12 (0.57%) ServiceNow
16 10 (0.48%) Red Hat
17 8 (0.38%) OpenText